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These are the 50 richest people in the world right now. The majority of the billionaires on the list are self-made self-starters who built business empires in tech, finance, fashion, and sports. A few inherited stakes in their family's companies. From tech tycoons to luxury car heiresses, here are the 50 richest people on earth.

Bill Gates has been the meaning of the richest man in the world right from my secondary school days. He entered and has never been excluded from Forbes list of wealthiest people in the world since the year 1987, and he has maintained Forbes title of the richest person in the world since the year 1995 till 2017.

He surpassed Bill Gates in Jul 2017 to become not only the richest man in the world but the richest person in the world. According to Forbes, Jeff Bezos is the richest man in the world with an estimated net worth of $138.3 Billion .

Amancio Ortega is the richest man in Spain. He is the founder and former chairman of Inditex Fashion Group, which is best known for Zara, one of the world’s largest apparel retailer. Ortega has retained his 6th position on this list of Top 20 Richest Person in the World, though he has lost more than $10 billion in 2018.

This is a list of Indonesians ordered by their net worth. According to Forbes (2007), there were only two Indonesians who were listed among world's billionaires. Robert Budi Hartono (and family) was ranked in the 664th with total net worth of US$1.5 billion. Both billionaires made profit from kretek (clove cigarettes) companies through Gudang Garam and Djarum brand names, respectively. A year before (2006), the Forbes Asia section had started a kick-off of listing only Indonesia's richest people and came up with Indonesia's 40 Richest People. Three Indonesian kretek tycoons were among the top five: Rachman Halim, Robert Budi Hartono and Putra Sampoerna. Sukanto Tanoto, Putera Sampoerna, and Eka Tjipta Widjaja in the 2006 Forbes Asia list were ranked above the two Indonesians from the 2007 Forbes' world's billionaires list.